The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by KarmaContestant

Well, the thing with "bath salts" is that they're not actually salts that you put in bath water.

The drug referred to as bath salts is usually one or a combination of some synthetic not-yet illegal substances (mephedrone, MDPV, and methylone) that looks like rock salt, and has to be crushed and snorted.

http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/f...s-drug-dangers

Apparently, some of the side effects are feeling like your organs are burning - super-human strength - and the loss of reason and logic. Gee, sounds fun. These three things would explain why the guy was naked, took multiple shots to kill, and was eating someones face.

I can't help but say that while some people will try anything to get a high, I do feel in my heart that if some drugs like marijuana were legal, there would be less interest in ever-stranger and more dangerous types of drugs - but that's an alltogether different subject.

All the 'bath-salt' stuff aside, this story is unsettling to say the least and immediately made me think of The Walking Dead and the fact that the CDC has a zombie-plague-outbreak plan. I've looked at hospital photos of the victim which I now regret, and frankly, if that were me I'd beg the medical staff to kill me.

They aren't used in baths, but they are marketed as such- that was my point.

I also tend to disagree that legalizing marijuana will somehow mitigate the emergence of alternative psychoactive pharmacological agents. That's just like saying that, well, alcohol is legal; why bother ingesting anything else? People will always chase after the next great high- whether it's smoking doobies or skydiving off a cliff. It seems that now that people are armed with a great deal of information via a few clicks of a mouse, people have become empowered to discover the homology of different classes of chemicals and have become armchair discovery scientists when it comes to trying to get high. It's a shame that this kind of drive and ingenuity is not being channeled towards more productive endeavors!